CHICAGO NEGRO VIOLENCE: Dwyane Wade's cousin Nykea Aldridge, 32, shot dead while pushing her welfare check tax absorbing baby in stroller on Chicago's South Side
Chicago basketball star Dwyane Wade's black welfare absorbing cousin was shot dead while she was pushing her baby in a stroller Friday afternoon near an elementary school in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood, according to police and a family spokesman.
Nykea Aldridge, 32, and a man were walking in the 6300 block of South Calumet Avenue about 3:30 p.m. when two men approached and someone began firing at the man, authorities and the family spokesman said.
The woman was hit in the head and the arm and taken to Stroger Hospital, where she died, police said. The baby was not hurt, and a relative came to the scene and took the child, police said.
Aldridge had gone to register her children at Dulles School of Excellence when the shooting happened, said the Rev. Edward Jones Sr., a spokesman for the family. The school is next to the Parkway Gardens apartment complex where Aldridge had lived for about four months, Jones said.
Aldridge is the daughter of Wade's mother's sister, the pastor said. He said Aldridge had four children, the youngest just a couple of weeks old.
“(She was a) Christian woman, a loving mother and somebody who aspired to make a life for herself and her family,” Jones said.
Wade issued a statement on Twitter late Friday.
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